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Jul 7, 2019
Robots step up to ace those big bad cinder blocks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Well, each to his own taste. Kittens making friends with balls of yarn are absolute magnets for video surfers but a rival army of video clicksters can never max out staring at humanoids navigating where they want to go.
The latest video showcasing humanoid robots on the move is impressing viewers with the deft and successful way they are navigating a cinder block maze.
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Jul 7, 2019
High cholesterol ‘does not cause heart disease’ new research finds, so treating with statins a ‘waste of time’
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Cholesterol does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like statins is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed.
A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered “bad” cholesterol and the premature deaths of over 60-year-olds from cardiovascular disease.
Published in the BMJ Open journal, the new study found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer.
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Jul 7, 2019
The moon in 2069: Top space scientists share their visions for lunar lifestyles
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: food, space
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Fifty years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the moon from science fiction to historical fact. Not much has changed on the moon since Apollo, but if the visions floated by leading space scientists from the U.S., Europe, Russia and China come to pass, your grandchildren might be firing up lunar barbecues in 2069.
“Definitely in 50 years, there will be more tourism on the moon,” Anatoli Petrukovich, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute, said here today during the World Conference of Science Journalists. “The moon will just look like a resort, as a backyard for grilling some meat or whatever else.”
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Jul 7, 2019
The U.S. Military’s Ultimate Sniper: Armed with Laser-Guided Bullets
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
Exact specifications are classified—range, maximum crosswinds and how slow a target must be moving. However, DARPA did reveal that it’s looking for a bullet that has the same energy and momentum as current M33 .50-caliber rounds at all ranges greater than 300 meters.
By Michael Peck
Jul 7, 2019
If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence about the implications of the new theory of quantum mechanics.
The focus of their worry was what Schrödinger later dubbed entanglement: the inability to describe two quantum systems or particles independently, after they have interacted.
Until his death, Einstein remained convinced that entanglement showed how quantum mechanics was incomplete. Schrödinger thought that entanglement was the defining feature of the new physics, but this didn’t mean that he accepted it lightly.
Jul 7, 2019
Scientists shrink stroke damage in mice
Posted by Paul Battista in category: neuroscience
Instead of trying to fix stroke-damaged nerve cells, Stanford scientists took aim at a set of first-responder immune cells that live outside the brain but rush to the site of a stroke. It worked.
Jul 7, 2019
Multishelled fullerenes beat graphene at catalysing water splitting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: materials
Jul 7, 2019
Two Viking Age ship burials discovered in Sweden
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A unique find of two boat burials from the Viking Age have been discovered in Sweden. One of the two graves was intact with remains of a man, a horse and a dog.
The two boat burials were found during an excavation at the vicarage in Gamla Uppsala last autumn. A medieval cellar and a well were excavated and then one of the boats was observed beneath the more modern structures. The two boat burials have been excavated during the last month and the results are sensational. “This is a unique excavation, the last burial ship here was excavated 50 years ago,” says archaeologist Anton Seiler.
A ship burial was a specific funeral practice in which the dead person was placed in a ship or boat often along with rich gifts like jewellery or sets of weapons and other objects. This kind of grave typically dates back to the Vendel Period (around 550–800 AD) or the Viking Age (800‑1050 AD), when it otherwise was common to cremate the dead. The graves can therefore be very well preserved. This custom was probably reserved for people of a higher social standing in society.